USPTO Patents Application 10665806

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Pajdff Number: 6,86 1 ,7 1 1 B2

lilted: March 1,2005

Name of Patentee: Shekar Mallikarjunaswamy

Title of Invention: THICK GATE OXIDE TRANSISTOR AND ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE
PROTECTION UTILIZING THICK GATE OXIDE TRANSISTORS

Attention: Certificate of Corrections Branch
Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450

Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION OF PATENT
FOR PTO AND APPLICANT'S MISTAKE (37 C.F.R. section 1.323)

1 . It is noted that errors appear in this patent of a typographical nature or character, as more fully
described below. The errors occurred in good faith. Correction thereof does not involve such
changes in the patent as would constitute new matter or would require re-examination. A
certificate of correction is requested.

2. Attached hereto, in duplicate, is Form PTO- 1050, with at least one copy being suitable for
printing.

3. The exact page and line number where the error occurs in the application file are:

In the original application mailed September 19, 2003;

Page 24, Claim 13, 1 st line (PTO error)
Page 26, ABSTRACT, 2 nd line

In the "Substitute Specification with Markings to Show Changes' 5 mailed April 9, 2004;

Page 3, Paragraph 0007
Page 4, Paragraph 0014, 1 st line
Page 7, Paragraph 0029, 3 rd line
Page 14, Paragraph 0051, 5 th line
Page 19, Paragraph 0070, 4 th line

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Date:

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authorized above. A duplicate of this paper is attached.

Customer No.: 22888 Patrick T. Bever, Esq.

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It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent is hereby
corrected as shown below:

(57) ABSTRACT, 2nd line, replace "an" with -a-.

Delete paragraph beginning "Automotive" (Column 1, line 62), ending "requirement." (Column 2, line 2).

Column 2, line 52, insert -a— before "simplified".

Column 3, line 57, delete "an".

Column 7, line 1 1 , delete "of IGBT 5a".

Column 9, line 50, delete "45" (second occurrence).

Column 12, Claim 19, line 37, insert --of-- before "claim".

MAILING ADDRESS OF SENDER: PATENT NO. 6,861 ,71 1 B2

Patrick T. Bever, Esq.
BEVER, HOFFMAN & HARMS, LLP
2099 Gateway Place, Suite 320
San Jose, CA 95110-1017
Telephone: (408)451-5902

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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION

PATENT NO.

DATED

INVENTOR(S)

6,861,711 B2

March 1,2005

Shekar Mallikarjunaswamy

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